Dr. Vandana Shiva

Dr. Vandana Shiva: "The seed bank, community seed bank, where we conserve seed diversity of the level of farmers. We don't want a high-tech, high-cost system, so farmers enter and they say, 'they can do it but we can't'. We want to inspire every farmer to be able to be a seed-keeper and a seed farmer. Right here we have among our 265 rich varieties that grow on this farm is a rice that is used for infants. It is used for women who have problems with pregancy. And it is used for very, very old people who cannot eat an ordinary food. This rice is a healing rice..."